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...week did produce one real shock when Italy's 27-year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special green wax designed particularly...
Harvard's narrow 64-60 victory over Northeastern in the Greater Boston meet wasn't decided until the final event Saturday afternoon. Ahead of the second-place Huskies by only three points, Harvard's relay team sped home in 3:26.3 for five first-place points and the meet victory...
...yard freestyle relay, the Radcliffe team of Miss Thomas Miss Wright, Kathy Fletcher '71, and Andrea Hedin '71 sped to a record-breaking 2:00.0 time, but had to settle for second place...
...trip had all the mystery of a ride on the old Orient Express. While a raging blizzard shut down the airports of Eastern Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued...
...game was 4 min. old when Bill Masterton, 29-year-old center for the Minnesota North Stars, sped across the blue line toward the Oakland Seals's goal. A first-year man in the National Hockey League, Masterton drove to within 25 ft. of the Oakland net, then flipped a pass to Wing Wayne Connelly. Most of the fans, players and officials in the Bloomington, Minn., arena were too busy following the puck to see exactly what happened to Masterton next. Only a few watched his skates slip out from under him as he toppled backward. His head...